Greater Los Angeles Drupal (GLAD)

About Greater Los Angeles Drupal (GLAD)

Greater Los Angeles Drupal (GLAD) is the umbrella group for most of the Drupal activity in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

With several weekly and monthly events, the Greater Los Angeles Area is one the most active areas for Drupal in the world. We've been bringing more Drupal to more people since 2010, and have as many as 10 meetups and other events dedicated to Drupal topics each and every month.

Our members and organizers have produced hundreds of Drupal events, including job fairs, meetups and workshops, conferences, paid trainings, coworking days, study group sessions, movie outings, FREE tutoring sessions from Drupal professionals, and website barnraisings to benefit non-profits and members of our community.

The Greater Los Angeles Drupal leadership team endeavors to actively empower and support volunteers and attendees in the Greater Los Angeles Area, and to provide resources (venues, guidance, equipment, raffle prizes, etc.) and an open governance model with consistency, transparency and accountability.

Several of our members and organizers proudly participate in the California Drupal Travelers Program, which aims to connect businesses and community members who are visiting the area with our local community and events. Inquire within by contacting any of the Greater Los Angeles Drupal organizers, or by joining the global Drupal Hospitality Network.

In addition to our unique open governance model, GLAD has a different geographic focus than other regional groups. Formerly named Downtown Los Angeles Drupal, we've been meeting regularly in and around Downtown Los Angeles, California, since early 2010.

GLAD organizers lead a large number of events in the Greater Los Angeles Area, including Downtown Los Angeles, Koreatown, Culver City, Santa Monica, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, Orange County, Riverside and Ventura.

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Suggested Topics

Is there a topic you'd like to learn more about? Would you like to offer a presentation, show-and-tell, or quick lightning talk? Please take a look at our Suggested Topics page.

SANDcamp is coming up fast and it's dripping with three days of Drupal goodness and training on Thursday February 26th PLUS two days of camp sessions on Friday and Saturday. Friday and Saturday are filled with great sessions on Drupal 8, new tools and innovations, an Arduino/Minecraft workshop, sessions in Spanish and more.

Spots are limited, and registration is required for training (even the free ones) and tickets are required for camp. https://sandcamp.org/register

What is GLADCamp?

GLADCamp is for All Things Drupal™ and is brought to you by the same team who organize countless Drupal events in the Greater Los Angeles Area, including Drupal Design Camp LA, the Drupal Job Fairs, the High Performance Drupal meetups and Drupal Coworking Fridays.

Stay tuned to this page and @GLADCamp on Twitter for news, including an updated program of events.

The 1st Tuesday of the month is here again and it's time for another Downtown Drupal Meetup! Join us via webcast on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 between 7-9pm Pacific. This meetup is free.

Are you new to Drupal or the Downtown Drupal meetup? Come learn about Drupal and how others like yourself are using it for their project, business or organization. We promise not to talk down to you. Those who would like to attend remotely are welcome to join us via webcast.

Tonight we're doing something a little different and will be dedicating the entire meetup to a Drupal Clinic, also known as Users Helping Users. This is a chance for members of the community to help and be helped by others with whatever questions and problems they're having with Drupal.

Please note that while Users Helping Users is not designed to be a replacement for bona fide consulting from a Drupal professional that there are plenty of Drupal experts and professionals who attend our meetups and sometimes they need help, too!

Are you currently having a problem that you need help with?

Do you have a presentation or job announcement that you'd like to share with the group?

Is there a topic about anything you'd like to see a presentation on?

Did you recently attend a great Drupal or tech event that you want to tell us about?

Did you solve a problem recently and now have a solution to share with the group?

February 2015 is very Full. We are having GLADCamp 2015 in association with SCALE13x on February 19 and 20. Then SAND camp is February 26-28. That is a lot of Drupal in two weeks. So we are not going to meet in Pasadena this month.

Registration is open for SANDcamp.org, February 26-28

Dates:
--Thursday, February 26 is Training: 6+ amazing classes to up your Drupal game
—Friday, February 27 is Day 1 of Camp: $10 for both days OR $10 at the door each day
--Saturday, February 28 is Day 2 of Camp

I'm new to the group and in LA, so I hope this is an appropriate discussion; if not, please point me to the right place.

I have a content type (e.g. Target) which has a title and body. I will have about a 1000 nodes of this content type. I want to be able to create a view that renders not not only the title and body of this type of node, but also associated nodes.

The 1st Tuesday of the month is here again and it's time for another Downtown Drupal Meetup! Join us via webcast or in person at Droplabs near Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 between 7-9pm Pacific. This meetup is free.

Are you new to Drupal or the Downtown Drupal meetup? Come learn about Drupal and how others like yourself are using it for their project, business or organization. We promise not to talk down to you. Those who would like to attend remotely are welcome to join us via webcast.

Tonight we're doing something a little different and will be dedicating the entire meetup to a Drupal Clinic, also known as Users Helping Users. This is a chance for members of the community to help and be helped by others with whatever questions and problems they're having with Drupal.

Please note that while Users Helping Users is not designed to be a replacement for bona fide consulting from a Drupal professional that there are plenty of Drupal experts and professionals who attend our meetups and sometimes they need help, too!

Are you currently having a problem that you need help with?

Do you have a presentation or job announcement that you'd like to share with the group?

Is there a topic about anything you'd like to see a presentation on?

Did you recently attend a great Drupal or tech event that you want to tell us about?

Did you solve a problem recently and now have a solution to share with the group?

On a new site I am building we are using the same theme for mobile and desktop, but for the homepage I want to disable, server-side, some aspects of the homepage when a mobile client appears on our site. The desktop version of the homepage is a very fancy parallax and the mobile version will be function-over-form.

December present a challenge for having our meeting on the 4th Thursday. Normally these conflict with the holidays. For December we will be meeting on the third Thursday. Please add December 18 to your calendar.

Join us from 6-8pm at Fuller Theological Seminary, Glasser 110 on Thursday, December 18, 2014, for Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes, community Q&A, lightning talks and full-length presentations.

SANDcamp is our annual Drupal camp that brings together training, Drupal experts and San Diego's best and brightest talent for three days of learning, sharing and teaching. It's a great way to meet your community and learn more about a great open-source platform. Speakers share their insights about their top web projects along with cutting edge Drupal practices. Everyone is welcome especially those new to Drupal.